Archive for February, 2009
I Dream of Networking
by Jonathan Kleiman
I have been running a professional network for Canadians, Probook.ca, for about 2 years now. I have been able to meet a ton of people through the site, and many great stories have come out of my experiences with the various people that I’ve been able to connect with.
The most interesting story, at least so far, is when my two hobbies met by accident. I am a 3rd year law student in Canada, and I’m about to graduate. I was at a networking event, and I started talking to a young man around the same age as myself. We started talking about our experiences on the internet, and I started discussing a problem I had with somebody with the same name as me having a negative listing on Google. He instantly empathised, because he had the exact same problem. In fact, it turns out we had the same problem. We had the same name!! The story has a happy ending. We recently were able to work together to convince the site that had posted the bad info to remove it.
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Jonathan Kleiman is a law student at Queen’s University and is the founder of Probook.ca and Law-Wiki.com
